NSW and Victoria Alpine Regions Predicts Wild Rainfall and Possible Flood Event

As the largest frontal system of the season moves through, the weather is predicted to continue becoming wetter for the interior parts of NSW and Victoria's alpine regions today.

The absence of the customary piercingly cold transition after the complicated low-pressure system is good news for those who are weary of shivering but concerned for the ski resorts.

Wild weather in NSW and Victoria

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The first of many cold fronts passed across Western Australia on Monday, bringing record-breaking wind gusts to certain parts of Perth and chaos at the airport due to power outages.

On Tuesday, the subsequent stormed over South Australia, while a third is currently moving across the southeast.

According to weather bureau meteorologist Dean Narramore, "that's going to tap into some tropical moisture, resulting in widespread rainfall throughout most of interior New South Wales and north-eastern sections of Victoria," as per abc News.

Thursday morning will see a significant increase in the main band, which will then expand over New South Wales and north-eastern Victoria by Thursday afternoon and evening.

He predicted that falls west of the Great Dividing Range would be the heaviest.

He predicted that the Victorian alpine areas may receive more than 100 millimeters of rain today.

He warned that some of our rivers, creeks, and streams "may see minor to moderate flooding."

So keep an eye out as you proceed later on Thursday and into Friday.

Additionally, rain is anticipated to persist across Tasmania's northern and western regions, where flood warnings are already in effect.

Wind effects are not anticipated to be as severe as they have been in recent days.

However, Narramore issued a warning that gusts of wind up to 100 kph were still possible in Victoria's north-eastern regions, especially in alpine regions.

He said that high areas of New South Wales were also susceptible to heavy winds, with the Snowy Mountains expected to see gusts of up to 125 km/h.

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The possibility of flood

Southeast NSW has received a severe weather warning because a cold front is expected to bring flooding, destructive winds, and heavy rain.

According to the Bureau of Meteorology, areas such as the Illawarra, Southern Tablelands, Hunter, South Coast, Central Tablelands, North West Slopes and Plains, Central West Slopes and Plains, South West Slopes, Snowy Mountains, and Riverina may see flash floods as a result of heavy rain.

On Thursday, the Snowy Mountains and the south-western slopes might have six-hourly rainfall totals of 45 to 60 mm, with isolated rains as high as 100 mm conceivable.

Over the mountains to the west of the ACT as well as the eastern Great Dividing Range from Bombala to south of Crookwell, continuing north to the Blue Mountains, wind gusts might reach a high of over 90 km/h.

The BOM stated that there is a higher danger of gusty winds collapsing trees and powerlines in the Central Tablelands and Illawarra due to saturated soils.

Braidwood, Goulburn, Bombala, Tumbarumba, Tumut, Khancoban, and Thredbo Top Station are now under a flood watch.

Volunteers in Wagga Wagga are getting ready for riverine flooding of the Murrumbidgee River between Tumut and Gundagai, according to NSW SES superintendent Barry Griffiths.

On Thursday, he remarked on the Nine Network, "We have mobilized two high clearance trucks, a fixed wing, and been involved with the local government authorities in the impacted regions."

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